Join our Detroit User Experience Meetup as we celebrate the third
World Usability Day Detroit the evening of Thursday, November 12, 2015 with a special event.
With this year’s theme of innovation, Detroit UX will host a special interactive design session, led by two local Detroit facilitators.
Ideation for Innovation
Detroit User Experience is thrilled to host Gaby Dorantes and Ezekiel Harris, two designers working in the city of Detroit who focus on human-centered design and social innovation.
At the hands-on session, you’ll learn the top methods used by design thinking experts to come up with useful and innovative ideas.
Join us for an exciting deep dive into how game changing ideas are born. Don’t miss out on your chance to become a certified idea generator and coolest person in your office.
- Learn how to set up and lead brainstorming sessions that will generate innovative ideas
- Develop your ideation vocabulary, methods, and mindset
- Receive a special gift that will help keep the ideas flowing!
Register today! The session is limited to 30 people.
About the Speakers
Gaby Dorantes is a designer, activist and innovator. She uses human-centered design to learn directly from the people for whom she is designing.
Her projects have combatted economic and basic needs challenges through product and experience design.
Her focus on research design allows her to identify latent user needs that create meaningful impact for the customers she serves.
Ezekiel Harris is a social impact designer specializing in social innovation and human-centered design.
He has first-hand experience creating positive social and economic change by transforming places, systems, and communities through products, services, and experiences.
He has the unique ability for rapid prototyping to confront deeply entrenched social challenges.
Registration
World Usability Day Detroit will be held November 12, 2015 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in downtown Detroit. Cost for the event is $10.00.
Pre-registration is required; attendance is limited to 30 people.
Register early; we expect this will be a popular event. Since our venue host requires the names of all attendees early, registration will close November 5, 2015.
Special thanks to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for hosting the venue and sponsoring food for this year’s event.
What Is World Usability Day?
World Usability Day (WUD) is an annual worldwide event, held the second Thursday in November.
It’s an inclusive event, bringing people together from the community to learn about and discuss how usability affects our daily lives in the services and products we use.
Events are held locally and are open to the public.
I have many fond memories of World Usability Day over the years, attending my first WUD event at Michigan State University in the mid-2000’s.
It was one of the first user experience events I attended when I was expanding my web knowledge beyond web design and development.
Detroit User Experience Meetup and World Usability Day Detroit
Our Detroit User Experience meetup group held our first WUD Detroit event in 2013, hosting Jeff Greer (Content Strategist at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan) and Steve Tengler (then User Experience Director at Altia, Inc.) who spoke on collaborating for better systems in healthcare.
For World Usability Day Detroit 2014, David Lingholm (Director of Digital Media for the City of Detroit) and Cora Cowles (Senior User Experience Architect at Organic) were our guest presenters, speaking on usability and engagement.
Though last year’s event was scheduled to end at 8:00pm, there was so many interesting questions and discussion between speakers and attendees, we didn’t end the event until almost 9:00pm.
As of today, over 50 WUD events will be happening in 28 countries around the world this year. Learn about World Usability Day on their website.
Looking forward to seeing you November 12!
